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To ask your unpopular opinion films you love?

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needsome · 04/08/2019 21:53

have loads I'm sure (I can't think of many rn) but Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman is one of my favourites!

Vampires, werewolves a Dracula I have an inappropriate crush on a badass heroine, bit of cheesyness , adventure and all the things in between. An overall great light-hearted watch for me.

Just discovered it's on Netflix and my evening is sorted 😁.

AIBU to ask what are you fav films which the majority doesn't appreciate?

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Pepperwand · 04/08/2019 22:52

Willow with Warwick Davies and Labyrinth with David Bowie. Both cinematic masterpieces as far as I'm concerned.... Grin

LajesticVantrashell · 04/08/2019 22:52

Wimbledon

MisterT373 · 04/08/2019 22:53

The film version of Miami Vice with Colin Farrel and Jamie Foxx was slated , particularly for the amount of mumbled dialogue. Michael Mann who was the cinematographer for the original series did the same for the film so it's got amazing shots and colours.

What I do is switch the soundtrack to French and then watch it with English subtitles and it becomes a gritty French police drama!

TheFridgeRaider · 04/08/2019 23:00

Don't mess with Zohan.

Also, like movies by The Asylum😁

LadyRannaldini · 04/08/2019 23:00

How did I forget the awesomeness that is Robin Hood POT?!

'Assume nothing except the occasional air of intelligence' I can hear Alan Rickman saying it even now, I pinched it as one of my bon mots when I was teaching.

LadyRannaldini · 04/08/2019 23:02

Road House, any excuse to see Patrick Swayze with his shirt off but a very unpopular film with the critics. 'It's my way or the highway', many of my favourite teaching phrases came from films!

Luaa · 04/08/2019 23:08

Grease 2 is one of my favourite films! I love it. I love the soundtrack. I like it way more than Grease.

sadkoala · 04/08/2019 23:09

Yes to Robin Hood! Love it!

Also as I'm watching I'm reminded of more reasons I love Van Helsing.

  • Hugh Jackman with that glorious hair
  • Kate beckingsdale is major girl crush!
  • the fabulous masquerade scene! Who wouldn't want to go to one of those with a full on circus and vamps parading around 😅

And the accents are just 🙌

DarklyDreamingDexter · 04/08/2019 23:27

Another Van Helsing fan here who luuurves Richard Roxburgh as Dracula in that! Didn't realise it was supposed to be unpopular - presumably with film critics rather than the public?

I've come to realise that I definitely don't have the same taste as most film critics and if they pan something, chances are I'll love it! (I often hate stuff they like!) I realised this donkey's years ago with a film called 'High Spirits' with Steve Gutenberg, Daryl Hannah and Liam Neeson. It got a total pasting, but I still love it! I also really liked Moulin Rouge, (another one with Richard Roxburgh) which critics hated. Sometimes you just want a bit of colourful escapism which doesn't take itself too seriously.

demelza82 · 04/08/2019 23:28

Guys, you need to listen to the Films to be Buried With podcast! Grease 2 gets a lot of honourable mentions but it's full of this type of stuff

FWIW mine are Batman Forever, Catch and Release, Because I Said So and A Good Year

JennyStarpepper · 04/08/2019 23:58

Hackers (that one with Jonny Lee Miller and a very young Angelina Jolie) it's pretty crap and very very 90s but I love it!

And the Police Academy films.

Gingernaut · 05/08/2019 00:04

The Rock and Con Air.

Coincidentally both Nicholas Cage films, but not about him.

Supremely unlikely, both quite violent and loads of explosions.

EatenByDinosaurs · 05/08/2019 00:18

@Pepperwand Shock Surely Willow and Labyrinth are classics?! David Bowie's trousers in Labyrinth though!!! Shock Blush Grin

Mine is Jurassic Park 3. I may have managed to convince DC its the best Jurassic Park film too so that they pick it to watch more Grin. It is absolutely not because I will never get tired of watching Sam Neill as Alan Grant Blush Grin

ScratchyMap · 05/08/2019 00:54

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves here too. I also love Pearl Harbor, even though it’s terrible and I spend the entire film commenting on how ridiculous it is.

Ilovetea33 · 05/08/2019 01:08

Robin Hood with Patrick Bergin.

Boneshere · 05/08/2019 05:53

Simply irresistible - smgellar
The Craft
Scream series
Witchboard 2
Barbie and the Rockers (no shame)
Save the last dance
Twilight and 50 shades series.

ChickenTikkaTellMeWhatsWrong · 05/08/2019 13:04

Cry Baby - Johnny Depp. Love that film, but not many people I know have seen it.

Love love love Wayne's World 1 & 2

And National Treasure 1 & 2

MariaVonBratt · 05/08/2019 13:25

Really cheap and cheesy horror films like the hills have eyes. The gorier the better. I find them hilarious. But I won't watch psychological genuinely scary horrors or I'm terrified for weeks. Go figure

QuantumWeatherButterfly · 05/08/2019 13:38

ChickenTikka I love Cry Baby too!

My very favourite film that no one else seems to get, though, is the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, with Pierce Brosnan and Renee Russo. Ah, I love it so much! So smart and so sexy, and so much smoulder! And she has the best wardrobe!

StoatofDisarray · 05/08/2019 13:57

Knight's Tale.

AwfulFuckingHair · 05/08/2019 14:06

The Day After Tomorrow

Areyoufree · 05/08/2019 14:08

Dish dogs.

WonderTweek · 05/08/2019 14:09

Wayne's World (1&2). They are brilliant films but people do take the piss out of me when I bang on about them. Grin (Currently wearing my Waynestock t-shirt!)

ethelfleda · 05/08/2019 14:11

Twilight
Fifty shades of grey
The Kissing Booth

I’m not even sorry. Watching shit teen films is my thing.

Astella22 · 05/08/2019 14:12

I hate Lost in translation
I mean I get the IRS’s of it but was just SO boring to watch. Lost all respect for the Oscars when it won